Show THE CITY COUNCIL ice companies not allowed to shut off the water new council take possession the city colons of bountiful city held their last regular meeting last thursday evening and cleared the table for the incoming council councilmen Council mea stoker brig baggs bergs ergs hatch and pace being present mayor idol brook presiding when the recorder who was a few minutes late entered tile the council room he asked the cause of such silence as prevailed ile iio was informed N that the old council going out of of office r ice probably accounted for it a 03 3 the members rey regretted b retted login losing 0 their honored positions when the attorney had explained that it would not be in order for the hie council to take up any new business the auditing tp committee proceeded to report the treasurers treasur ers and recorders books had been audited by them anti and found to correspond with a few ac captions which they mentioned report was accepted the petition of john waite J T mabey stephen J hart ind and others asking for a transfer of water to john goodfellow was granted the bonding of the water on t the lie respective creeks for the purpose of making ice was thoroughly 0 discussed by th the e council and the ice makers stephena Stephe nJ ellis joseph hogan and eric hogan of the mountain lee ice company judson tolman find and IV wm m ashdown were present to show cause why they should be allowed the privilege aforesaid davis st stated that a number of persons living 0 in the neighborhood of simeon ms complained to him that the mountain ice company had bonded the water in the past and in consequence the settlers were deprived of it mr ellis pros pres of the mountain lee ice co said that the company had bad been granted the privilege 0 of pond ing the water for milling 0 purposes for a number of y years ears that lie he did not believe that there was much difference in the quantity of water that ll 11 now ow reaches the settlement and that formerly reached it people have had to haul water from froin john waites wailes and other flowing 0 wells for many years said lie he ile he alluded to the increased number of divides that had bad been made of late years and thought Z this had something to do with reducing tile the quantity jos hogan 0 said that ice making 0 w was a s one of the principal objects the company had in view when they purchased the old mill property yand and that he lid did not havu have any idea of injuring any one liy hy doing this ile he related that many years ago ago one of the plaintiffs to the city council c came ame to hit him lie he being in tile the milk business and lid ask him if he would not take his cow and keep her ter and pay what lie he could afford to for the milk milic she gave ave mr hogan not dot wishing to ke keep ep more cows declined to take her but lie he finally said to mr hogan you can have till all you can make from her for it is such a bother to take her up to the mill every day to water this showed to him hill that when the weather neather was cold tile water did not bot reach the settlement before the colli compana compa pany nj began to make ice eric 1100 hogan 1111 who lives at the mill sal said 1 I I 1 that after enlarging the mill pond last year lie he believed there wits was much seepa seepage c but last spring lie ile slashed the bottom of the tha pond thoroughly and since he be believed there was no seepage 0 to speak of ile he explained that the water was usually ally sloped off about 6 p in taking in ill cold werther about three hours to raise the pond sufficient for to overflow the boards atthe it leot in the morning about 7 tile the extra amount of water the night was as saved up tip daring permitted to flow into the settle beut increasing ising the daily flow about one fifth he explained to the council s had bad come up to thi he mill burti quite ire ex excited eted I 1 and threatened I 1 to tear out the gates but after looking around they became convinced that it was impossible to tell the difference between the size of the in flowing and out flowing streams and that abat t these hese parties departed feeling satisfied that it must be the col cold d weather and not the mill that stops the water from reaching the settlement mr hogan was asked by councilman stoker if it was necessary to fill the pond each day to which he replied that lee ice men consider it so it was stated b by y mr inocan 0 that more water lad had been taken out of the ditches above tile the mill than was needed and that he lad had gone to m much lich bother for the benefit of the people to turn it down th the e main ef channel iannel judo judson on tolman who ponds on ward canyon creek related that several beveral years ago the people complained to the county court that his mill pond was wasting 0 much water A selectman was ordered by the court to come and measure the mater letting it run in the main channel one day and through the mill pond the next The selectman however wits was unable to tell any difference in the quantity and reported it so to the court the people said mr tolman were not satisfied satis Ged and said that the selectman had bad been bribed ile he further remarked that on a cold day it was impossible to make the water reach the settlement in these open ditches if they were thoroughly cleaned out in the fall he thought would be the best thi thing dt that could be done samuel bryson said that the water had reached his place since a complaint had been entered against 0 the mountain lee ice co but for some time previous to making tile the complaint they were deprived of it mr E eric ric hogan reported that the company had been doing 0 some climp chopping prior to the time alluded to by mr bryson and consequently antly the pond became low and while filling fillin 0 it was shutoff mr ho 0 arl said a certain ditch above the mill lid did not have a divide and in consequence the water could not be regulated as it should be A number of reasons were given giten that we are unable to give to show that the people were not injured by the water being bonded in the r respective e spec tive ponds after hearing 0 all alche tile evidence the council pissed passed a resolution that it be the sense of that body to instruct all water masters to see that the water be kept running continually when it flow into the ponds council adjourned to tuesday evening jan jail ath 1893 TUMMY TUESDAY EVENINGS SESSION all tile the councilmen were arese prese present nt at tuesday evenings session mayor holbrook presiding recorder erran ean presented his report for tile the year 1893 the same wits was accepted treasurer String bam also presented his report for the year which showed that there is a balance in the treasury of 76 this report was also accepted after these reports had been read and accepted the new city officers presented their commissions which were ivero accepted there was a vacancy owing to john fisher declining to qualify at as councilman D 0 lV willey illey brigham brigha m holbrook and david stoker were nominated for to fill the vacancy david stoker declined to accept D 0 winey willey was elected lecter by acclamation C E pearson was appointed city ity attorney for the coming cominar 0 year council adjourned to wednesday evening jan 1894 |